Английская Википедия:Babingtonia cherticola

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Babingtonia cherticola is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and white or pale pink flowers in groups of up to three, each flower with 16 to 26 stamens.

Description

Babingtonia cherticola is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt and has slender stems. The leaves are densely clustered, linear, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are usually arranged in groups of up to three on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, each flower on a pedicel Шаблон:Cvt long. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide and the petals are white or pale pink, Шаблон:Cvt long. There are 16 to 26 stamens arranged in a single whorl. The ovary has three locules and the style is Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering mainly occurs from November to February and the fruit is a capsule Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide.

Taxonomy

Babingtonia cherticola was first formally described in 2015 by Barbara Rye and Malcolm Trudgen in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near Moora in 1993. The specific epithet (cherticola) means "chert-dweller", referring to the species usually growing on chert hills.

Distribution and habitat

This species mostly grows in a range of habitats between Watheroo National Park and Watheroo on chert hills, and near Badgingarra and Cataby on sandplain or in sand over laterite, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Conservation status

Babingtonia cherticola is listed as "Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.